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A protester faces French riot gendarmes, during a second eviction of environmental protesters from the area in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.

French police launch new clampdown on protest camp near Nantes

Police at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes site on Friday

Dozens injured in French police operation to clear airport protest

Tear gas floats in the air as protesters retreat and French gendarmes advance with an armoured vehicle during an evacuation operation in the zoned ZAD (Deferred Development Zone) in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.

Clashes continue as French police clear anti-capitalist camp

A protestor walks past burning debris as French gendarmes continue to clear Notre-Dame-des-Landes protest camp, near Nantes on 9 April 2018.

French police clear Nantes anti-airport protest camp

French Press Review 19 January 2018

A protest at the Notre-Dame des Landes site

France to decide on controversial Nantes airport plan following mediators' report

Opponents of the project for the creation of the international airport Notre-Dame-des-Landes near Nantes demonstrate on the peripheral road of Nantes, western France, on January 9, 2015.

Opponents of controversial Nantes airport protest against expulsion

A protest after Rémi Fraisse's death in the southern city of Albi on Monday

French government tries to quell new crisis after anti-dam protester’s death

French press review 25 February 2014

20 000 - 50 000 people, including EELV MPs, joined Saturday's protest

Ayrault dampens talk of Socialist Green coalition split after violent airport protest

French press review 24 February 2014

Protests against the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport development turned violent on Saturday.

Nantes mayor sues over airport protest

Protesters gather this weekend at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport site.

Thousands protest against new airport in western France

French press review 11 May 2013

Gendarmes pass a burning shack at Notre-Dame-des-Landes on Monday

French police injured in clashes with Nantes airport protesters

Anti-airport activists earlier this week

Clashes with police as airport protesters plan next move

Police remove barricades erected by protesters on the route to the airport site

French court orders eviction of anti-Nantes airport protesters

Make-shift camp where demonstrators gather as evacuation operations continue in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, 26 November, 2012

French farmers join environmental activists in protest against Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport

Demonstrators walk behind a banner which reads, "Airport = Capitalism. Stop Immediately"

On-the-spot France

Protest grows against new French airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes near Nantes - part 2

Tractors are chained together outside the make-shift camp where demonstrators gather in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, 26 November

On-the-spot France

Protest grows against new French airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes near Nantes

French press review 24 November 2012

Some of the shacks built on land earmarked for the airport

French police teargas airport site squatters ahead of new demo

Protesters and police face off at Notre-Dame-des-Landes

Thousands gather for anti-airport protest that highlights splits in French government

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